Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1882 — Useless Fright. [ARTICLE]

Useless Fright.

To worry about any Liver, Kidney or Urinary Trouble, especially Bright’s Disease or Diabetes, as Hop Bitters never fails of a cure where a cure is possible. We know this. Under the new law Chinese going home to make a visit with the intention of returning to this country will require a passport, but the identification of a Chinese is a difficult matter, he differs so slightly in appearance from thousands of his race. To prevent the possibility of fraud it has been suggested that the authorities should take advantage of the fact that no two human heads are shaped exactly alike. It is proposed by means of such a machine as hatters use for measurement to represent upon >every passport by small holes punched through it the outline of a horizontal section of the owner’s head. Alt, along the Frazer river the edge is black with salmon, while the creeks for a Jong distance are jammed with them. Millions are to he seen, and, as the water goes down in the creeks, thousands are left to die.